In 2019, Sona Mohapatra used a Kalam of Bulleh Shah in her song "R.A.T Mashup". In 2017, British Pakistani singer Yasir Akhtar used Bulleh Shah's poetry in his song "Araam Naal Kar – Take it Easy". Bulleh Shah's verses have been an inspiration to painters as well, as in the two series of paintings ( Jogia Dhoop and Shah Shabad) by an Indian painter Geeta Vadhera inspired by the poetry of Bulleh Shah and other Sufi poets and saints. Call of the Beloved.Īlso in 2016, a collaboration between two EDM artists ( Headhunterz and Skytech) named "Kundalini" used words created by Bulleh Shah, as well as having the words Bulleh Shah in the lyrics. The Wadali Bandhu, a Punjabi Sufi group from India, have also released a version of "Bullah Ki Jaana" in their album Aa Mil Yaar. In 2004, Indian musician Rabbi Shergill turned the abstruse metaphysical poem "Bullah Ki Jaana" into a rock/fusion song in his debut album Rabbi the song was a chart-topper in 2005, helping the album to eventually sell over 10,000 copies and became immensely popular in India and Pakistan. In the 1990s, Junoon, a rock band from Pakistan, furnished his poems " Bullah Ki Jaana" and "Aleph" ("Ilmon Bas Kareen O Yaar"). Many people have put his Kafis to music, from humble street-singers to renowned Sufi singers like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pathanay Khan, Abida Parveen, the Waddali Brothers and Sain Zahoor, from the synthesised techno qawwali remixes of UK-based Asian artists to the Pakistani rock band Junoon. The verse form Bulleh Shah which is mainly involved is the Kafi, popular in Western Punjabi and Sindhi poetry. Bulleh Shah practised the Sufi tradition of Punjabi poetry. The ceiling of shrine is decorated with the verses of Bulleh Shah in elegant calligraphy.Īmongst Urdu poets, Bulleh Shah lived 400 miles away from Mir Taqi Mir (1723–1810) of Agra. There is a clean and very huge veranda which leads to the Tomb of Baba Bulleh Shah as you enter the shrine. He was buried in Kasur when he died in 1757. His funeral prayer was led by Qazi Hafiz Syed Zahid Hamdani a great religious personality of Kasur.
He was buried in Kasur, and a shrine was built over his grave. After his early education, he went to Lahore where he met Inayat Arian, and became his student. He was born in 1680 in the city of Uch, during the Mughal Empire (present day Pakistan).
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